Posted 3 years ago on Aug. 22, 2013, 10:14 p.m. EST by GirlFriday
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A federal case in San Francisco, filed by an Iraqi single mother and refugee now living in Jordan, alleges that President Bush and much of his administration should be tried for violating international law in the execution of the Iraq War.

However, the Obama administration's Department of Justice has moved to request that such Bush-era officials, and the former President, be shielded with immunity.

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If only all the myriad machinations of this tragic and depraved heist of lives and treasure ~ 9/11-Afghanistan-Iraq ~ were known and widely understood. But they aren't. The culprits worked on this scheme for unknown years before it's execution and their keen attention paid to legalizing these crimes resulted in their subsequent abject inculpability. Much like the Wall Street heist.

The Bush-Cheney administration simultaneously worked heavily on purging the DOJ of non-team players, implanting team-player cells in perpetuity, and purging laws and regulations they deemed hazardous. And it seems to have paid off.

There are also strong reasons to suspect that some sort of coercion or blackmail has been perpetrated on the Obama Administration causing a strange reluctance to prosecute. Again, if only all the details were known and widely understood. But they're not. But the 1%-GOP has done it many times before, witness our current sequester and returning budget hostage crisis.

This we do know: old entrenched skullduggeries are not reversed quickly or easily, and they thrive in special interest access & secrecy, especially combined with prevailing public dereliction and neglect. And unfruitful litigations cost massive amounts of money. If we have learned only one thing from this rapacious imbroglio, it is that there must always be watchdogs! We must always be vigilant!

Let's hope they made a mistake or someone goes rouge, the statute of limitations is just about up!

Why don't you find something out before you slime, I guess it's not necessary when it's always the same anti-black POTUS whatever. Let us all know when you have better options to share... besides glitter and Unicorns.

I'd go with shock and awe. I'd also go with CYA. That said this case, Saleh v Bush:
In her lawsuit, Saleh alleges that:

-- Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz began planning the Iraq War in 1998 through their involvement with the “Project for the New American Century,” a Washington DC non-profit that advocated for the military overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

-- Once they came to power, Saleh alleges that Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz convinced other Bush officials to invade Iraq by using 9/11 as an excuse to mislead and scare the American public into supporting a war.

One might well think considering the history of the region. But sad to say it is greed and control of resources rearing it's ugly head again. Genocide is just a symptom of the problem in this case I think.

Bush and Rummy. At the most human aspect of it all, when he was with those kids....thats not the look of someone who just heard "We are under attack".

I have always thought the drama surrounding his being in a classroom was shit. It's like watching a Maury show on who is the father. You know, when a picture of the child is placed on a screen and everyone is supposed to applaud when the woman says that the baby looks just like the guy in question. It isn't accurate yet serves to reinforce the false belief that looks determine the father. That isn't how it works. You're going to need to a paternity test for that.

I think that they were completely aware that it was possible. In fact, I would go so far as to say that they knew that it wasn't a question of if but when.

Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic [integrisme], having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.

Brzezinski: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.
http://www.counterpunch.org/1998/01/15/how-jimmy-carter-and-i-started-the-mujahideen/